Clinton School District's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals from the decrees of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: In Equity. No. 102-103, to October and November Term 1867. These appeals were by the Clinton School District from the decrees of the court upon two several bills filed by James Harvey and William Harvey. William Harvey, on the 31st of May 1866, filed a bill against John Montgomery and others, school directors of the district, and Samuel Anderson and William Abert, collectors of tax.
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Appeals from the decrees of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: In Equity. No. 102-103, to October and November Term 1867. These appeals were by the Clinton School District from the decrees of the court upon two several bills filed by James Harvey and William Harvey. William Harvey, on the 31st of May 1866, filed a bill against John Montgomery and others, school directors of the district, and Samuel Anderson and William Abert, collectors of tax. The bill set forth that the defendants had assessed two bounty taxes on the complainants’ property at different dates amounting together to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Agnew, J.
These bills were presented to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county to restrain the school directors and the collectors of bounty taxes of Clinton township from collecting taxes assessed upon these plaintiffs under the Act of 14th April 1864, to provide for the payment of bounties to volunteers in the county of Butler, and its supplements. Each claimed to be exempted from the payment of bounty taxes under the Act of 30th March 1866. *317The power of making exonerations and exemptions from the assessment and collections of…
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